[Comedias] FW: Ben Gunter: Call for Participants (for AHCT Members)

Tue May 25 20:24:21 EDT 2010

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From: Ben Gunter [athe2009sigloseminar at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 8:25 PM
To: Vidler, L. DR DFL; lvidler at comedias.org
Subject: Ben Gunter: Call for Participants (for AHCT Members)

Dear Laura:

Could you help us bring this Call for Participants to the attention of AHCT aficionados?

THANKS A MILLION.

I'm attaching a copy in Microsoft Word, pasting it in below, and praying for the end of semester madness to end,

Ben

CALL for PARTICIPANTS

POWER MOVES:
New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age
Through Fencing, Dancing, & Connections to Shakespeare

NOW CASTING:

TEAMS of scholars & practitioners to reconstruct physical interpretations for world-class performance texts, bridging gaps in production history which currently inhibit teaching, staging, & critiquing plays from the Siglo de Oro.

COME COLLABORATE on PRODUCING:

>  a revolutionary re-view of how dance, combat, & ideas intersect in one- & three-act scripts from early modern Spain;
>  a history-making journey into lost production history, re-connecting choreography with literature to recover stagecraft;
>  a map-changing movement across boundaries between study & performance, original & translation, Shakespearean tragedy & Spanish Comedia.

SKILLS SOUGHT:

INTEREST in meeting, firsthand, vibrant examples of Total Theater – powerful fusions of movement, music, spectacle, & profound thought.
ENTHUSIASM about preparing recovered classics for rediscovery – in class, onstage, & for further research.
EXPERIENCE with dance, stage combat, Spanish, translation, dramaturgy, performance, or Shakespeare.

PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS:

Step One:              Go through the Audition Drill (details below).

Step Two:        Read (then repeatedly re-read) your Team’s target play
(during the summer).

Plays currently targeted include:

>  Lope de Vega’s three-act La dama boba / Lady Nitwit (c. 1613; translated 1962, 1976, 1998, & 2000)

>  Cervantes’ one-act Entremés de Trampagos, el rufián viudo / The Thug Who Lost His Sugarmama (published 1615; translated 1948, 1964, & 1996)

>  Quevedo’s one-act Entremés de la destreza / Swash-&-Buckle Play (c. 1608)

>  Cervantes’ one-act El retablo de las maravillas  / The Wonderful Showoff Show (published 1615; translated 1948, 1964, 1996, & 2008), &

>  Lope de Vega’s three-act Castelvines y Monteses / Capulets vs. Montagues (c. 1603; translated 1998, 2005, & 2010).

Team Members will post notes about the intersection of dance, combat, & ideas in target plays on the session’s wiki as they read.

Step Three:      With inspiration from your Team Leader, pose specific, pedagogy-production-research questions for the session’s senior scholars – the fight choreographers, dance historians, & movement-reconstruction practitioners who’ll enrich our exploration (September).

Step Four:      In collaboration with other members of your Team, develop concrete strategies for teaching, staging, & critiquing your target play, to share as your Team report (October).

Step Five:      Attend the session’s meeting in Seattle – two hours (or more) in which you’ll get to share findings with other Teams, participate in hands-on demonstrations with senior scholars, & network with ASTR’s Shakespeare Performance Research Group (November).

AUDITION DRILL:

Send a 250-word proposal & a brief personal sketch to astr_gold_2010 at yahoo.com<mailto:astr_gold_2010 at yahoo.com>
by Monday, May 31.
In your proposal, tell us which of the target plays catches your interest most urgently, & why.  More information about the plays is posted at
http://spanish-golden-age-plays.wikispaces.com<http://spanish-golden-age-plays.wikispaces.com/>.
In your personal sketch, tell us about skills you can bring to your team.

PLEASE NOTE:

We warmly welcome participation from people with no prior exposure to the Spanish Golden Age.  In step with the guidelines posted at
http://www.astr.org/Conference/WorkingSessionGuidelines/ tabid/128/Default.aspx<http://www.astr.org/Conference/WorkingSessionGuidelines/%20tabid/128/Default.aspx>,
we’ll explore ideas interactively, with no formal conference-paper presentations.

QUESTIONS:

We’ll be happy to clarify, expatiate, & respond.  You can reach the session’s co-conveners – Ben Gunter at Florida State University, Susan Paun de García at Denison University, & Amy Williamsen at the University of Arizona – via
astr_gold_2010 at yahoo.com<mailto:astr_gold_2010 at yahoo.com>.

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